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Title: Youth Employment: Does Life Begin at 16?
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Michael, Robert T. Tuma, Nancy Brandon |
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Youth Employment: Does Life Begin at 16? Journal of Labor Economics 2,4 (October 1984): 464-476. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2534809 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Employment, In-School; Employment, Youth; Racial Differences; Teenagers Theoretical economic models, official labor force statistics, and most empirical studies of young workers disregard employment experience of students under age 16. Evidence from several sources, however, suggests that students ages 14 and 15 acquire substantial employment experience. Moreover, that experience is vastly different for black and white youths. Several policy-related issues, including causes of black-white differences in adult earnings, may deserve to be interpreted differently in the light of differentials in early employment experience. This employment experience of 14- and 15-year-olds in general and its racial pattern in particular should not continue to be ignored. |
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Michael, Robert T. and Nancy Brandon Tuma. "Youth Employment: Does Life Begin at 16?" Journal of Labor Economics 2,4 (October 1984): 464-476.
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